73 The Lost World: Jurassic Park Quotes (2025) #2

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Ajay Sidhu: [shouts] Don't go into the long grass!

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Peter Ludlow: [over radio] This is as good a place as any for base camp. That's first priority after we're finished. I want it up and running in thirty minutes. That's half an hour, understood? Over.
Roland Tembo: Cancel that order.
Peter Ludlow: What? Why?
Roland Tembo: This is a game trail, Mr. Ludlow.

Carnivores hunt on game trails. Do you want to set up base camp or a buffet?
Peter Ludlow: [over radio] Let's find a new spot, shall we? Over and out.
Roland Tembo: Peter, if you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions: firstly, I'm in charge, and when I'm not around, Dieter is. All you need to do is sign the checks, tell us

we're doing a good job, and open your case of Scotch when we have a good day. Second condition: my fee - you can keep it. All I want in exchange for my services is the right to hunt one of the tyrannosaurs. A male, a buck only. How and why are my business. Now if you don't like either of those two conditions, you're on your own. So go ahead, set up base camp right here, or in a swamp, or in the

middle of a Rex nest for all I care. But I've been on too many safaris with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas, okay?
Peter Ludlow: [gives thumbs up] Okay!

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[about the Compsognathus]
Dieter: It gives me the creeps, like it's not scared.
Dr. Robert Burke: There haven't been any visitors on this island. There's no reason for it to fear man.
[Dieter touches a cattle prod to the dinosaur's head, causing it to flee]
Dieter: Now it does.

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Sarah Harding: I need something pliable... Spit.
[Holds out her hand]
Nick Van Owen: [Spits saliva into her palm]
Sarah Harding: [Disgusted] Your *gum*!

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Dr. Ian Malcolm: What are you talking about? Five years of work and a hundred miles of electrified fence couldn't prepare the other island. And you think that, what? A couple dozen Marlboro men were going to make a difference here?

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Sarah Harding: [about the baby T-Rex] He's too drugged.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: He's never gonna know we have it if the thing doesn't make some kind of sound.
Sarah Harding: Come on. Wake up. Come on. Come on. Wake up.
[baby T-rex growls. Adult T-Rex sniffs the air then roars in their direction]
Sarah Harding:

He knows.

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[When Sara's camera runs out of film and the baby dinosaur roars]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Oh, they get very angry when you run out of film.

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[about the poison on the darts in their guns]
Eddie Carr: The most powerful neurotoxin in the world. It works faster than the nerve conduction velocity, which means the animal's down before it actually feels the - P! - prick of the dart.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Is there an antidote?
Eddie Carr: What, like if you shot yourself in the

foot? Don't do that, you would be dead before you even knew you had an accident.

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Kelly Malcolm: She doesn't even have Sega. She's such a troglodyte.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Cruel, but good word use.

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Sarah Harding: What's everybody looking at?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [spots the T-Rex transfer ship speeding towards the harbor]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: We should've stayed in the damn car.

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[about the high hide]
Eddie Carr: It keeps you out of harm's way, away from the animals.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Actually, it would put them at very convenient biting height.

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Sarah Harding: [to Ian] I've worked around predators since I was 20 years old. Lions, jackals, hyenas... you.

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Sarah Harding: [referring to the T-Rexes] This isn't hunting, Ian, it's searching. They're looking for their infant.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Let's not disappoint them.

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Sarah Harding: Don't light that! Dinosaurs pick up scents from miles away.We're here to observe and document, not interact.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Which is a scientific impossibility.Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. What you study, you change.
Sarah Harding: I'll risk it. I'm sick of scratching around in rock and bone... making

assumptions about the nurturing habits of animals... that have been dead for 65 million years.Then you fill my head with stories. Of course I came down here.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Stories of mutilation and death. Were you paying attention?
Sarah Harding: Please! Don't treat me like a grad student.I've worked around predators since I was 20.Lions, jackals,

hyenas, you.

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[while luring the T-rex to follow them to the docks]
Sarah Harding: Ian, slow down.
[Ian looks behind him and sees the T-rex coming]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Uh... I don't think so.

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Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's your background? Wildlife photography?
Nick Van Owen: Yeah. Wildlife, combat... you name it. When I was with Nightline, I was in Rwanda, Chechnya, all over Bosnia. Do some volunteer work for Greenpeace once in a while.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Greenpeace? What drew you there?
Nick Van Owen:

Women. 80 percent female, Greenpeace.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: That's noble.
Nick Van Owen: Yeah well, noble was last year. This year I'm getting paid. Hammond's check cleared, or I wouldn't be going on this wild goose chase...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Uh, where you're going is the only place in the world where the geese chase *you*!

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Peter Ludlow: You know, I remember the people who've helped me, Roland. There's a job for you at the park in San Diego if you want it.
Roland Tembo: No thank you... I believe I've spent enough time in the company of death.

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[Roland is sitting in a bar in Kenya. Ajay walks in behind him, and Roland turns around]
Roland Tembo: Ajay!
Ajay Sidhu: [laughing] How did you know?
[they hug]
Roland Tembo: That cheap aftershave I send you every Christmas, you actually wear it? I'm touched. Sit down, sit down. What on earth brings you to Mombassa?

[they sit]
Ajay Sidhu: You. Well - I got a call from a gentleman who's going to Costa Rica or thereabouts. Now if he is to be believed, it's a most unique expedition and very well-funded.
Roland Tembo: Well, I'm a very well-funded old son of a bitch. You go.
Ajay Sidhu: What, alone? But we always had such great success

together, you and I.
Roland Tembo: Just a little bit too much, I think.
Ajay Sidhu: What do you mean?
Roland Tembo: A true hunter doesn't mind if the animal wins. Bu there were not enough escapes from you and me, Ajay. We were a firing squad, don't you think?
Ajay Sidhu: I have good reason to believe

that you would find this challenging.
Roland Tembo: Then it's probably illegal. These days it's a worse crime to shoot a tiger than to shoot your own parents...
[sees some American tourists causing trouble with a waitress]
Roland Tembo: Tigers have advocates...
[downs his drink]
Roland Tembo: Excuse me, would

you?